Is the MCMC building a massive snoop and censor system for WhatsApp?
The MCMC is becoming the most powerful agency in the government, arguably surpassing JAKIM
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is in the process of building a ‘fake news’ verifier for the social media app WhatsApp. The MCMC is collaborating with Meta, a foreign owned company which undertakes work for the US intelligence community. The CEO of Meta has on occasion admitted this publicly.
Approximately 60 percent of Malaysians get their news from social media. WhatsApp is at the forefront of this, virtually replacing the old coffee shop gossip sessions. WhatsApp is second only to YouTube in popularity.
Communication Minister Fahmi Fadzil said the new CHATBOT app being developed by the MCMC and Meta, and will be available at the end of May. The objective of CHATBOT will be to control defamatory content via WhatsApp.
CHATBOT will be designed to reference reports by the JomCheckGroup and MyCheck from Bernama.
The issue here is how “correct” will be the so-called factcheckers themselves? Who funds the NGOs behind JomCheckGroup? Isn’t Bernama mandated to report and carry the government line? The short history of the factchecking industry is very poor. Many factcheckers are partisan and carry specific agendas. In addition, how will the AI algorithms be programmed? This will always add in biases to the app. We already know this from Meta and Google.
Is the MCMC going far beyond the CHATBOT with WhatsApp surveillance?
There is talk the MCMC is going far beyond developing just a CHATBOT for WhatsApp. With the access “key” to WhatsApp provided by Meta, the MCMC is engaged in developing a sophisticated system of surveillance into WhatsApp. The MCMC will be able to ease drop into chat groups and identify those WhatsApp users who are critical of the government.
Powerful AI based software will collect and analyse Metadata and be able to ‘zero in” on ‘persons of interest’ to the MCMC. The system will be able to find out the political views of any individual it desires. The MCMC will then alert police to intimidate those it deems are critical of the government on the WhatsApp platform. This system can be mis-used to ‘weed out’ and intimidate whistleblowers uncovering corruption of political connected cronies. The system will also be able to detect and identify ‘dis-loyal’ civil servants in private chat groups.
This new system will complement the Israeli Pegasus ease-dropping software currently in use by Malaysian law enforcement agencies. The Israeli NSO Group is the leading producer of WhatsApp surveillance software. There are many cases of misuse of this software internationally.
This is all illegal and a massive breach of privacy.
The government surveillance of WhatsApp conversations is not something new. The illegal and clandestine Texas National Guard Operation Lonestar surveillance of illegals and smugglers was recently exposed, leading to arrests.
The Madani Owellian state
The government has almost complete control over the mainstream and online media today. There is no alternative media left in the country. The government is now attempting to control WhatsApp chat groups. WhatsApp is one of the last bastions of free speech about to be muzzled.
The MCMC is becoming the most powerful agency in the government, arguably surpassing JAKIM.
The MCMC is under the control of UMNO, with its chairman being a powerful UMNO warlord in Selangor. He is becoming the power behind minister Fahmi, with his unchecked control over internet media.
MCMC chairman Salim Fateh the real power behind Communication Minister Fahmi Fadzil
This is a massive weapon that will be used again Perikatan Nasional and its leaders in the run up to the next election. Objective investigative journalism is systematically being destroyed be destroyed by the MCMC.
The secretive administrative state is opaque and running the country.
If the government has any concerns about privacy, civil rights, and preventing abuse of power, it must create the position of a special ombudsman to deal with alleged abuses by the MCMC.
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My first question is why is the chappie on the left fondling the woman? Is he checking for a bug, a cockroach, maybe? Or is it just insatiable lust, the type those mullahs say you should marry a few wives and have a few more mistresses to remedy.
Otherwise, that tall glistening building might be just the height to to skydive someone brought in for questioning over a few ballpens. We do love tall buildings but apart from worshipping the phallus we never need such big buildings, we'll never get that large a size a building just to fill up with our regular workshy workforce of dumb penpushers who'd spend more time skivving from work, anyway.
Perhaps we do need a huge building filled up with a huge workforce, some gomens, usually rather inadequate fascist ones do spend a huge effort running after social deviants and even more, totally innocent folks who perhaps say unflattering stuff a weak and intolerant gomen doesn't like...
Time is better spent doing the right things, things a genuine, proper, moral gomen should be doing anyway. If a gomen is upright, it shouldn't have lunatic fears about folks they are supposed to serve.
If there is, for example, a fear of WhatsApp, Facebook, and the like, there's nothing better than to run Kelingniks where members of the gomen including the PM, can meet face to face to deal with problems, issues, questions the public has. You can go all over the country running Kelingniks. You could even end up reverting a Keling or two.
Control freakery is for losers. You've just got to love your citizens, show them trust and they will respect and trust you in return. Prying into their knickers drawers is not the right way to gain trust - or to run any gomen. If anything, that's the way of a perversed gomen, and it should be the public running surveillance software watching the gomen.
Is the gomen going to pay big money to run the Gestapo? I'm afraid we just don't have enough of the bright sparks to run what is effectively an intelligence outfit - simply put, we just don't have that many intelligent fellas around to even run the software side of things, let alone design programmes, analyse data etc etc before rounding up the wrong folks just to discover we've yet again fcuked things up. The citizens should have laws protecting them from the likely cockups of the gomen and its spying apparatus.
Best thing is to close the very unnecessary and very expensive spooky outfit, flog the software on Lelong, office chairs, tables, computers, electric shock gadgets etc etc and find the many things to do with the money which an honest gomen should to improve the welfare of the people.
Any change left after disbanding the Ministry of Surveillance and Censorship and paying off the usual middlemen for the software and tons of operating manuals should still buy a lot of MacDani nasi lemak and Anging Panas. And maybe some DarSa ayam goreng if it is still around and clucking about the "Type Cs"
Maybe we could flog the tall building to DarSa. They can name it after Britain's very spooky GCHQ - Glorious/Goreng Chicken Headquarter.The boss can also be called "M" for MacDani or Mullah or Malay. Just like in James Bond yarns. MacDos has its "Hamburger Universities", maybe the gomen can train the good folks of the public to snoop on each other and betray each other - Malaisesians are very good at those kinds of things, almost natural talent.
Go easy slagging off your neighbours etc on WhatsApp etc groups, if you really need to be fcuking nasty little kaypohs and backstabbers, then maybe you should apply for a spot inside that glistening building... Maybe you could be assigned the job of skydiving people off the tall building..!
Perhaps a shift away from Whatsapp to Signal? Signal is more secure than other messaging apps and would probably be much more difficult to track. The government already has a head start on Whatsapp since it's part of FaceBook and has been in use for so long. Signal offers the same functionality with much higher security.